BlockSholes, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sherman precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68771. The Survey maps it on the Randolph South quadrangle. 16 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,729 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSholes fell from 21 to 16 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | |
| 2020 | 16 | -5 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Randolph South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sholes between 2009 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 20 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 22 May 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
6 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sholes in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Sholes | - | The office received a report of a funnel cloud from the Cedar County 911 Call Center. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sholes | - | A personal weather stationed measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Sholes | - | Hail up to quarter-size fell for about 15 minutes, although most of the hail was 1/2 or smaller. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sholes | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph downed a few tree branches near Sholes. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Sholes | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sholes | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sholes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2124002 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 833412. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.